Chapter 8

【Player Nickname: The Undead#9527】

【Player Level: Lv1 (Each level-up grants one freely assignable attribute point)】

【Strength: 10 (Top-tier professional boxer level)】

【Constitution: 10 (Top-tier long-distance runner level)】

【Agility: 10 (Top-tier parkour athlete level)】

【Intelligence: 11 (This is extremely unusual, but prolonged neurosis has caused the system to question this rating)】

【Spirit Power: 35 (Average is 5; normal humans max at 10. Are you even human?)】

【Charisma: 5 (Your face is pleasant to look at, but your bizarre behavior is causing your charisma to continuously decline)】

Wu Wang raised an eyebrow upon seeing this.

How could this simple game interface dare to comment on his face and behavior?

Could it have independent consciousness?

Without hesitation, Wu Wang slowly bent down and stripped himself completely naked; in the dark space, his sharply defined muscles went unseen.

Then he began doing broadcast calisthenics on his own.

His fists danced through the air, aiming everywhere.

About ten minutes later, he glanced again at his personal panel and noticed a value had changed.

【Charisma: 4 (What the hell are you doing! Where’s your decency? Your civility? You fucking bastard!)】

“OK, seems it really has some consciousness. That’s interesting—is this AI self-evolving, or is some biological mind taking over the system?” Wu Wang put on his pants without expression, lost in thought.

Yet no matter how loudly he shouted in the dark space, no voice answered him.

It seemed this consciousness was oddly elusive.

Wu Wang stopped trying to trigger the system’s awareness and scrolled down to view the rest of his personal panel.

【Inventory: Gaoshan High School Uniform】

【Skills: Shadow Mutual Combat Technique, Truth Sight】

“Huh? What the hell are these skills?” Wu Wang ignored the strange uniform in his inventory and instead curiosity drove him to open the descriptions of the two baffling skills.

【Shadow Mutual Combat Technique (Active): You may swap any body part with its shadow between real and illusory states. Consumes 5 Qi per second. No cooldown. (Player Qi = Spirit Power × 10)】

【Note: Please, my other self!】

This shadow-related skill must have come from the previous dungeon—he’d heard the hidden condition triggered when forcibly logged out.

That glitch-ridden, hopeless dungeon likely had “catch the ghost” as its hidden condition.

After all, that should’ve been impossible.

【Truth Sight (Passive): This allows you to perceive a certain truth, revealing the false and twisting tasks into their true forms】

【Note: %@&# is watching you from the Abyss】

【Oh God! I’m beginning to understand everything!】

The original task from the twisted dungeon.

And it’s still a passive skill.

That didn’t sound like good news.

“This shitty skill is some curse that bastard Ke Zong gave me, right? And now it’s watching me from the Abyss?” Wu Wang muttered with a strange expression: “Are you the Abyss God?”

Unfortunately, he hadn’t experienced any other dungeons yet.

He didn’t fully understand what these “twisted tasks” really were.

Wu Wang decided to check the rest of the panel first.

Huh—

With a thought, the Gaoshan High School uniform appeared in his hand.

He raised an eyebrow in surprise—he hadn’t expected items in the inventory to materialize out of thin air.

“I’ve got a storage ring now! Too bad I don’t have an old man who can teach me alchemy with fire.” Wu Wang sighed.

Since the Shadow Mutual Combat Technique was a hidden reward, this uniform must be the so-called “compensation reward.”

He turned it over. The uniform was slightly worn; the school emblem and the words “Gaoshan High School” on the back had faded from repeated washing—clearly, its original owner came from a poor family and couldn’t afford a new one, so they kept cleaning this single set.

【Gaoshan High School Uniform: Wear it at midnight while standing in any school campus to activate a targeted dungeon】

【Note: Hide! Hide quickly! Don’t let it see me!】

Wu Wang was taken aback.

He’d assumed it was armor, but it turned out to be a key to unlock a new dungeon.

“Indeed, the unease is still overwhelming…”

From the moment he entered the beginner dungeon until Ke Zong stared at him with bloodshot eyes, Wu Wang had felt something was off.

Now, seeing the uniform’s effect and note, he finally understood where the dissonance came from.

“Earlier information was too scarce. I didn’t know the ghost’s identity, why it hid in shadows, or why the classroom lights flickered. Now I get it—it didn’t belong in that dungeon at all!” Wu Wang’s mind raced.

Even the worst game developers know to include a plot or background story, or at least some character context.

But that previous dungeon had nothing.

You entered and were immediately killed by a ghost; the clear condition was a dead-end loop.

It was as if the entire dungeon’s sole purpose was to kill everyone inside.

Even Miyazaki Hidetaka wouldn’t be this sadistic!

With this Spirit Disaster game being so advanced, such a crude dungeon shouldn’t exist.

Unless the lecture hall and the ghost were forcibly stitched together!

They had no connection whatsoever!

“The ghost should’ve been part of Gaoshan High School—not that weird lecture hall,” Wu Wang narrowed his eyes, studying the uniform in his hand.

He couldn’t know what caused this anomaly.

Or rather, to find out, he’d have to investigate “Gaoshan High School” himself.

Thinking this, Wu Wang smiled faintly:

“Heh, this is a pure fishing trap. Only an idiot would fall for it. Do I look like an idiot?”

Whatever entity could alter dungeon structures—whether a person’s doing or a relic’s influence—was best avoided at this stage.

【Immortality】 wasn’t invincibility.

Torturing someone was too easy.

For example—seal yourself in a cement barrel and sink it to the ocean floor; the moment you revive, you suffocate and die, endlessly repeating.

In such a case, 【Immortality】 becomes the true source of torment—unable to live, unable to die.

For example—sealing oneself inside a cement barrel and sinking it to the ocean floor, so that upon resurrection one suffocates and dies, trapped in an infinite loop.

Just after mocking it,

his right hand suddenly lifted uncontrollably.

The red vertical pupil on his inner wrist stared straight into Wu Wang’s eyes; whispers echoed inside his skull, his consciousness sinking, twisting; his skin itched as if new organs were growing.

Wu Wang snapped back and immediately averted his gaze.

Yet in his daze, he still saw that red pupil blink at him.

The next second, his hand felt sticky.

Yet in a daze, he still saw that red vertical pupil blink at him.

The once faded uniform had changed.

Now it was splattered with all kinds of paint-like stains, as if tossed into a dye vat and churned randomly.

Red dominated the mess.

A foul, metallic stench rose, striking his nose and making him involuntarily frown; the familiar texture and years of suicide experience instantly told him the truth.

The red wasn’t paint.

A foul, fishy stench also reeked out, striking his nostrils and making Wu Wang instinctively frown; the familiar sensation in his hand and years of suicide experience instantly led him to a conclusion.

And old, congealed blood at that.

Most crucially, the uniform’s panel description had changed—

【Bloodstained Uniform: Holder must reach any school environment and wear this garment within 24 hours】

【Note: It caught me. Now it’s your turn… Run!】

【If the task is not completed within the time limit, the dungeon will descend upon your closest person】

【Target Locked—Wu Xiaoyou】

[If the task is not completed within the allotted time, the dungeon descends upon the closest person.]

Wu Wang’s fist clenched violently, nails digging deep into his palm; the sound revealed his intense emotional surge.

Because of the person this name represented.

Just recently, she’d prepared instant noodles with chicken and mushrooms on the table for him.

She was Wu Wang’s second sister.

And the only family he had left in this world.

“You fucking bastard! The Abyss God has activated, hasn’t it?” Wu Wang growled through gritted teeth.

He never imagined that cursed skill from Ke Zong, 【Truth Sight】, could twist items.

“You fucking bastard! The Abyss God has activated, hasn’t he?” Wu Wang’s voice was gritted with fury.

Never in a million years did he expect that the 【Truth Sight】 provided by the Underling Chief could distort items!

This damn skill is still [Passive], completely impossible to stop.

After taking a deep breath, his mindset returned to normal.

Wu Wang grinned fiercely at the worn-out school uniform in his hand: “You want to see me go have fun?”

“Fine! Then open your dog eyes wide and watch how I clear Gaoshan High School in record time!”